SOCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 92, 13 January 1932, Page 4

SOCIAL ITEMS

■Miss Kebble, Levin, is on a visit to the Lower Hutt. Miss Putnam, Northland, is on a visit to Auckland. , Mr. and Mrs. 'Dykes have returned from a visit to Christchurch. Miss Marjorie Trotman, Grey town, is visiting Mrs. Pat Ward, Martinborough. Miss Patricia Martin, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. G. J. Smith, “Riverlaw,” Opawa. Mrs. W. Sutherland, of Hamilton, is staying with her sister, Mrs. H. J. S. Rickard, Hiropi Street. Madame Ivo Symes Is a Wanganui visitor to Wellington, and is the guest of Mrs. Trevor Thomas. Mrs. S. H. Rastall and Miss Kathleen Fuller, of Wellington, are at present visiting Auckland. Miss Doris Pow is at present the guest of Dr. and Miss Fitzgerald, London Street, Dunedin. Miss H. W. Newton, who has spent some time in the East, returned to Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Len Blundell, Grove Road, and their children are spending a holiday at Porangahau beach. Miss Winifred Hare, Khandallah, has returned home after spending a holiday with Miss Ward, Takapuna.' Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Fish, of Wellington, are staying with Mrs. Fish’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Norris, Fendalton. Mr. and Mrs. A. Norman-Jones and Miss G. Norman-Jones, Lower Hutt, returned by the Maunganui yesterday from a visit to England. Mrs. E. Cowper and her son Brian, who have been visiting Wellington, returned to Wanganui by car yesterday. Miss Pauline Stafford, who has been visiting Mrs. F. Peat, Titlrangi, Auckland, and Mrs. Cecil Webster, Whangarei, has returned to Wellington. Miss Emma Cowper, who arrived from England by the Tainui yesterday, i,s going to Castlccliff to stay with Mrs. E. Cowper at her seaside residence. Among the arrivals by the Maunganui from Sydney yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. W. Penseler, who have been in Europe for about nine months. Mrs. J. M. Griffiths gave a most enjoyable afternoon tea party at the D.I.C. rooms, her. guests being Madame Beranger, Mesdames Markwick, Coyle, Shand, Beveridge, Woodward, and Misses Oil and Griffiths. Mrs. D. W. Duthie came from Auckland to meet her daughter, Miss Joyce Duthie, w’ho returned from a visit to England by the Tainui yesterday. Mrs. and Miss Duthie are staying with Mrs. J. B. Mac Ewan.

Mr. and Airs. Gladstone AVard, who have been spending several months in the Holy Land, and later visiting England, intend leaving in March, with their two daughters, on their return journey to New Zealand. The engagement is announced in an exchange of Air Commodore Kingsford Smith’s niece, Miss Boris KingsfordSmith, to Mr. John AV. Stannage. e Miss Kingsford-Smith is a daughter of the airman’s eldest brother, w’ho is manager of the Hawaiian Steamship Company, and Mr. Stannage, who is at present second wireless operator on the Monowai, was wireless operator on the Southern Cross on her remarkable flight across the 'Atlantic last summer.